PES network seminar : career guidance and lifelong learning : summary report

The European Network of Public Employment Services (PES) Network identified 'sustainable work, better functioning and integration of labour markets and better matching of the skills of jobseekers with employers' among its objectives. As such, the Network agreed in its 2017 PES Network Programme that a seminar should take place on 'Career Guidance and Lifelong Learning' with the aim of bringing together PES practitioners to learn from each other about how to make improvements towards these goals. The impetus for the seminar is closely connected to the continuously changing world of work, an issue on the agenda of the PES Network. To that effect, the seminar also focused on 'the new world of work', in particular how PES need to continuously improve to stay one step ahead of the changing needs of the labour market in order to help jobseekers make good career choices. The seminar took place in Helsinki on 28-29 June 2017, which directly followed the eighth International Symposium for Career Development and Public Policy that was held in Seoul, Korea on 18-21 June 2017. Participants who had attended the Seoul conference were able to disseminate some of the international recommendations for PES and national governments.